Island Hopping
If you want to stock up on cans of corned beef hash, I recommend a jaunt to Ishigaki-jima — one of the Yaeyama islands at the bottom of the Ryukyuan chain. Vegetarians may enjoy a brown sugar/brown...
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A mini-documentary about sexual assault on the Tokyo subway. (If you have trouble viewing video in our lightbox player, please go directly to the video here.) Directed by Ian Lynam Research by Ariki...
View ArticleInflammatory Gaijin Piece
Richard Mason’s The World of Suzie Wong is the archetypical postwar Asian-mystique story. Most critiques of the work and especially the film adaptation focus on its problematic depiction of the...
View ArticleTwo Views of the Shikoku Henro Pilgrimage
We ask two American writers Gideon Lewis-Kraus and Matthew Firestone what it was really like to walk the 88-temple-long henro pilgrimage route in Shikoku — and learn that foot comfort is the secret to...
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